a+watermeter

gener. watermeter

mŏdŭlus, i, m. dim. [modus], a small measure, a measure (not in Cic. or Cæs.).

Lit.:

relinquitur de numero, quem faciunt alii majorem, alii minorem, nulli enim hujus moduli naturales,

Varr. R. R. 2, 2, 20:

ab imo Ad summum moduli bipedalis,

two feet high, Hor. S. 2, 3, 309.—Prov.:

metiri se quemque suo modulo ac pede,

i. e. to be content with his own condition, Hor. Ep. 1, 7, 98.—

In archit., a module:

si Dorici generis erunt columnae, dimetiantur earum altitudines cum capitulis in partes quindecim, et ex eis partibus una constituatur, et fiat modulus,

Vitr. 5, 9, 3; 3, 3, 7; 4, 3, 3 sq.—

In aqueducts, a watermeter:

est autem calix modulus aeneus, qui rivo, vel castello induitur: huic fistulae applicantur,

Front. Aquaed. 36.—

Rhythmical measure, rhythm, music, time, metre, mode, melody:

moduli Lydii, Dorii, Phrygii,

Plin. 7, 56, 57, § 204:

verborum,

Gell. 5, 1, 1:

tibiarum modulis in proeliis uti,

id. 1, 11, 1.—

Trop.:

cur non ponderibus modulisque suis ratio utitur?

Hor. S. 1, 3, 78: ganeones, quibus modulus est vitae culina, measure, Varr. ap. Non. 119, 11.